People v. Lichtenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2025
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Ammidown · United States v. Cowan · People v. James · People v. McKenzie · People v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR COUNTY OF LARIMER
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court's refusal to grant a prosecutor's request to dismiss a charge was an abuse of discretion absent [clear and convincing] evidence that the prosecutor was attempting to harass the defendant or prejudice his defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[njo eriminal case pending in any court shall be dismissed or a nolle prosequi therein entered by any prosecuting attorney or his deputy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Storlie · People v. Frye“some supervisory power over the prosecution of a case so that the interests of justice, as well as the interest of the defendant and society, can be effected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Storlie
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.